Poles at bottom when it comes to attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccines

The British company YouGov is checking attitudes towards vaccination against the coronavirus among people from 52 countries around the world. The survey shows that the largest number of vaccines in Europe is in the UK and Denmark. Least – in France and Poland. Which citizens are the most enthusiastic about vaccination globally?

The YouGov survey places Poland in one of the last places in the world. According to a survey published on January 15, 2020, showing the situation on December 13, 2020, only 28 percent of Poles would be ready to receive the vaccine. 37 percent of respondents objected, and 35 percent of people were undecided.

At the end of 2020, only the French expressed a similar distrust among all the countries included. However, the percentage of the French population that said they would benefit from vaccination has risen from 24 percent in December up to 39 percent in January. So far, YouGov has not conducted further research in Poland.

In December, Poles were also surveyed by the Medical University of Warsaw in cooperation with ARC Rynek i Opinia. Unlike the YouGov survey, the Medical University of Warsaw survey provided participants with five possible answers. According to them, 17 percent of respondents will be vaccinated "as soon as possible", 23 percent will be vaccinated after some time, 6 percent will not be vaccinated because they have already suffered from Covid-19 disease, and 32 percent won't take the vaccine "for other reasons."

The Ministry of Health, on the other hand, refers to the data of the United Survey, which is preparing surveys commissioned by Radio RMF FM and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. In the first poll in November, 42.6 percent of respondents asked about the vaccine answered "definitely yes" and "rather yes". In January, these results increased to 67.6 percent in total.

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